The smudge tool works fine in Fresco, however, is extremely slow in PS. Even copying and pasting froze my system. I had to log out to reclaim functionality.
I tried the steps you recommended.
Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.11.0 20250817.m.3185 1d4267f x64 (beta, PublicBeta) Number of Launches: 3 Operating System: Windows 11 64-bit Version: 11 or greater 10.0.26120.5751 System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:12, Stepping:1, AVX2, AVX-512, HyperThreading Physical processor count: 4 Logical processor count: 8 Processor speed: 2419 MHz Built-in memory: 16075 MB Free memory: 10294 MB Memory available to Photoshop: 11836 MB Memory used by Photoshop: 70 % Crash Handler: Adobe DCX Version: 9.11.0 SAM SDK Version: 14.3.1 ACP.local Status: - SDK Version: 5.8.1 - Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible - Core Sync Running: 7.7.0.5 - Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.66.28 Live Edit Client SDK Version: v5.3.2 Adobe Firefly: Please use any generative AI feature to view the latest version. OpenColorIO version: 2.4.2 C2PA library version: adobe_c2pa/0.14.2 c2pa-rs/0.43.0 NGL Version: 1.42.0.5 Sophia Info: - Ps_Feature_Flag, Feature Flag URL (AEM) campaignID:1a091c3c-4a1e-4d93-8840-f595801852d4#bc415ea8-98f3-462a-a750-2e42ba198454 variationID:034522ad-d61e-4158-8057-30e1394cd1bf-0#b117d7aa-28bb-4fbd-820b-f1e21c78b64c#ddf8400b-3f21-4b8e-be2b-c9272c2bf749, 989c5cc6-f157-4cb2-b40a-c53b64bf9ca8#e020654b-1bbf-4d46-b130-f9b434aa3242, 97a82d80-70c2-48f6-9092-bdc3c7fdc512#bc415ea8-98f3-462a-a750-2e42ba198454, 9f84ad63-770e-4cc8-98d9-7ff4f0de6030#ddf8400b-3f21-4b8e-be2b-c9272c2bf749##ff6f9061-1ddd-4215-890b-b56a89991e3a Chalkboard: Enabled. Chalkboard Doc Create: Enabled. D3D12Warp renderer: Disabled. Precise Color Management for HDR Display: Disabled. Alias Layers: Disabled. Highbeam: Enabled. Image tile size: 1024K Image cache levels: 4 Font Preview: Large HarfBuzz Version: 8.4.0 TextEngine: ATE 7.9.0 (d611361) ======= GPU Native API stable: True OpenCL API stable: True GPUDeny: 0 GPUForce: 0 useGPU: 1 useOpenCL: 1 isGPUCapable: 1 isGPUAllowed: 1 GPUName: NVIDIA GeForce MX450 GPUVendor: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce MX450 UNKNOWN, NVIDIA Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics UNKNOWN, INTEL IsNativeGPUCapable: 1 IsOpenCLGPUCapable: 1 HasSufficientRAM: 1 GPU accessible RAM: 1,906 MB Required GPU accessible RAM: 1,500 MB UseGraphicsProcessorChecked: 1 UseOpenCLChecked: 1 Windows remote desktop: 0 Windows available feature level: 12.1 Windows required feature level: 12.0 Windows has required feature level: 1 Display: 1 Display Bounds: (0, 0) -> (1920, 1080) Display scale: 1.5 Main Display Display Type: SDR Display Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 Display: 2 Display Bounds: (0, 1080) -> (1920, 1595) Display scale: 1 Display Type: SDR Display Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1 ------- Sniffer output [0 ms] Launch GPUSnifferThread
Accented Edges 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Adaptive Wide Angle 26.11 - from the file “Adaptive Wide Angle.8bf” Angled Strokes 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Average 26.11 - from the file “Average.8bf” Bas Relief 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” BMP 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Camera Raw 17.5 - from the file “Camera Raw.8bi” Camera Raw Filter 17.5 - from the file “Camera Raw.8bi” Chalk && Charcoal 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Charcoal 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Chrome 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Cineon 26.11 - from the file “Cineon.8bi” Clouds 26.11 - from the file “Clouds.8bf” Color Halftone 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Colored Pencil 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Conté Crayon 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Craquelure 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Crop and Straighten Photos 26.11 - from the file “CropPhotosAuto.8li” Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Crosshatch 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Crystallize 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Cutout 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Dark Strokes 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” De-Interlace 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Dicom 26.11 - from the file “Dicom.8bi” Difference Clouds 26.11 - from the file “Clouds.8bf” Diffuse Glow 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Displace 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Dry Brush 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Entropy 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Export Color Lookup Tables 26.11 - from the file “Export3DLUT.8be” Extrude 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” FastCore Routines 26.11 - from the file “FastCore.8bx” Fibers 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Film Grain 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Filter Gallery 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Fresco 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Glass 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Glowing Edges 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Grain 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Graphic Pen 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Halftone Pattern 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Halide Bottlenecks 26.11 - from the file “HalideBottlenecks.8bx” HDRMergeUI 26.11 - from the file “HDRMergeUI.8bf” HSB/HSL 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” IFF Format 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Ink Outlines 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” JPEG 2000 26.11 - from the file “JPEG2000.8bi” Kurtosis 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Lens Blur 26.11 - from the file “Lens Blur.8bf” Lens Correction 26.11 - from the file “Lens Correction.8bf” Lens Flare 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Liquify 26.11 - from the file “Liquify.8bf” Matlab Operation 26.11 - from the file “ChannelPort.8bf” Maximum 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Mean 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Measurement Core 26.11 - from the file “MeasurementCore.8me” Median 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Mezzotint 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Minimum 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” MMXCore Routines 26.11 - from the file “MMXCore.8bx” Mosaic Tiles 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Multiprocessor Support 26.11 - from the file “MultiProcessor Support.8bx” Neon Glow 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Note Paper 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” NTSC Colors 26.11 - from the file “NTSC Colors.8bf” Ocean Ripple 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” OpenEXR 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Paint Daubs 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Palette Knife 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Parametric Filter NO VERSION - from the file “MaterialFilter.8bf” Patchwork 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Paths to Illustrator 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” PCX 26.11 - from the file “PCX.8bi” Photocopy 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Picture Package Filter 26.11 - from the file “ChannelPort.8bf” Pinch 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Pixar 26.11 - from the file “Pixar.8bi” Plaster 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Plastic Wrap 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Pointillize 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Polar Coordinates 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Portable Bit Map 26.11 - from the file “PBM.8bi” Poster Edges 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Radial Blur 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Radiance 26.11 - from the file “Radiance.8bi” Range 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Render Color Lookup Grid 26.11 - from the file “Export3DLUT.8be” Reticulation 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Ripple 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Rough Pastels 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Save for Web 26.11 - from the file “Save for Web.8be” ScriptingSupport 26.11 - from the file “ScriptingSupport.8li” Shear 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Skewness 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Smart Blur 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Smudge Stick 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Solarize 26.11 - from the file “Solarize.8bf” SP Substance Suite NO VERSION - from the file “MaterialSuite.8li” Spatter 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Spherize 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Sponge 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Sprayed Strokes 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Stained Glass 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Stamp 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Standard Deviation 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Substance 3D Viewer NO VERSION - from the file “Substance3DViewerForPs.8bi” Sumi-e 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Summation 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Targa 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Texturizer 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Tiles 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Torn Edges 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Twirl 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Underpainting 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Vanishing Point 26.11 - from the file “VanishingPoint.8bf” Variance 26.11 - from the file “statistics.8ba” Water Paper 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Watercolor 26.11 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf” Wave 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” WIA Support 26.11 - from the file “WIASupport.8li” Wind 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf” Wireless Bitmap 26.11 - from the file “WBMP.8bi” ZigZag 26.11 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Optional and third party plugins: NONE
Duplicate and Disabled plugins: NONE
Plugins that failed to load: NONE
Unified Extensibility Platform - Extensions:
Home Screen (Loaded) 9.4.1.1 - from the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe/UXP/Extensions\com.adobe.ccx.start-9.4.1\" CmdN: 1.26.27 FMS: 1.10.9 UAM: 1.3.1 UAB: 2.18.0-17 UAB4: 5.38.0 AXT: 1.0.5 Loaded at: 196 ms - launch time impact: 4 ms ccx-timeline (Prepared) 3.1.12.0 - from the file "Required Folder" CCX Commenting UXP Webview (Loaded) 30.19.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 7899 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Beta Feedback (Prepared) 1.15.5.0 - from the file "Required Folder" CCX Sharesheet UXP (Prepared) 30.29.3.0 - from the file "Required Folder" CC Libraries Panel (Prepared) 4.11.89.0 - from the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe/CEP/Extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_4_11_89\" CAPTURE: 2.0.41 STOCK: 4.2.7 Photoshop Facepile (Loaded) 1.9.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 203 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Share Panel (Loaded) 1.0.22.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 205 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms In app notifications (Loaded) 10.0.211.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 207 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Content Credentials (Loaded) 0.51.4.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 7111 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Generative Workspace (Prepared) 0.0.20.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Parametric Filter (Prepared) 1.0.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Photoshop Adjustments Panel (Loaded) 2.3.8.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 7901 ms - launch time impact: 1 ms Photoshop UXP Export-As (Prepared) 5.12.1.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Photoshop In App Messaging (Loaded) 4.8.6.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 7903 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Information Alert (Prepared) 0.5.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Photoshop Selection Feedback (Prepared) 0.5.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Plugins Panel (Prepared) 1.6.9.0 - from the file "Required Folder" Substance 3D Viewer Plugin for Photoshop (Prepared) 1.0.0.0 - from the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe/UXP/Extensions\com.adobe.substance-3d.viewer.ps\" IC popup message (Loaded) 1.0.0.0 Loaded at: 7185 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Multilayer Protection (Loaded) 1.0.0.0 Loaded at: 7186 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Discover Panel (Loaded) 2507.128.0.9 - from the file "Required Folder" Loaded at: 7906 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms Neural Filters (Registered) 1.15.0.102 - from the file "Required Folder" Scan time: 0 ms - entries: 33
Extensions:
com.adobe.stock.panel.licensing-embedded 4.0.35 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_4_11_89\extensions\stock-panel-licensing\index.html” com.adobe.capture.extension 2.0.41 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_4_11_89\extensions\capture\capture.html” AsusDial 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\com.asus.dialPS\client\index.html” Export As 4.8.16 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop (Beta)\Required\CEP\extensions\com.adobe.photoshop.crema\index.html” Export As 4.8.16 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop (Beta)\Required\CEP\extensions\com.adobe.photoshop.crema\index.html” com.adobe.cclibraries.manager 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_4_11_89\manager.html”
Launch BETA Photoshop While Pressing The Keyboard Shortcut With Photoshop closed, press and hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) / Shift+Command+Option (Mac) on your keyboard and then Launch Photoshop the way you normally would. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
2. It may help if we could see your Photoshop beta System Info. Launch Photoshop beta, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.